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Annie Hall
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
1977 · Directed by Woody Allen · 93 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 19 frames
Tagline
A nervous romance.
Plot
Comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall ended a year earlier. Growing up in Brooklyn, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, and was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity, suddenly kissing a classmate at six years old and not understanding why she was not keen to reciprocate.
Annie and Alvy, waiting in a movie theater line to see The Sorrow and the Pity, overhear another man deriding the work of Federico Fellini and referencing Marshall McLuhan. Alvy imagines McLuhan himself stepping in at his invitation to criticize the man's comprehension of his work. That night, Annie shows no interest in sex with Alvy. Instead, they discuss his first wife, whom he devalued because of her interest in him. His second marriage was to a New York writer who did not share his enthusiasm for sports and was unable to reach orgasm.
With Annie, it is different. The two of them have fun cooking a meal of boiled lobster together. He teases her about the unusual men in her past. They had met playing tennis doubles with friends. Following the game, awkward small talk leads her to offer him a ride uptown, and then a glass of wine on her balcony. There, what seemed a mild exchange of trivial personal data is revealed in "mental subtitles" as an escalating flirtation. Their first date follows Annie's singing audition for a nightclub ("It Had to Be You"). After having sex that night, Alvy is "a wreck", while Annie relaxes with a joint.
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Crew
- Written by: Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen
- Cinematography: Gordon Willis
- Edited by: Wendy Greene Bricmont, Ralph Rosenblum
- Produced by: Jack Rollins, Charles H. Joffe
Cast
- Diane Keaton as Annie Hall
- Woody Allen as Alvy Singer
- Tony Roberts as Rob
- Carol Kane as Allison
- Paul Simon as Tony Lacey
- Shelley Duvall as Pam
- Janet Margolin as Robin
- Colleen Dewhurst as Mrs. Hall
- Christopher Walken as Duane Hall
- Donald Symington as Dad Hall
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, German
- Studios: Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, United Artists
- Budget: $4,000,000
- Box office: $43,989,445
- Themes: new york city, sports, tennis, narration, job interview, cocaine, neurosis, comedian, romcom, love
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